OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy & Administration is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID‐19 and care homes in England: What happened and why?	75
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis	70
The next generation EU: An analysis of the dimensions of conflict behind the deal	67
Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Canada and the United States: Explaining policy variations between two liberal welfare state regimes	58
The unequal distribution of administrative burden: A framework and an illustrative case study for understanding variation in people's experience of burdens	53
Nordic welfare states—still standing or changed by the COVID‐19 crisis?	50
Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	48
COVID‐19, the Great Recession and social policy: Is this time different?	47
The COVID‐19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states	44
Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double‐edged income effect of pension systems	44
Recent pension reforms in Europe: More challenges, new directions. An overview	41
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Central and Eastern Europe	39
Governing new authoritarianism: Populism, nationalism and radical welfare reforms in Hungary and Poland	38
Common shock, different paths? Comparing social policy responses to COVID‐19 in the UK and Ireland	34
Digital coping: How frontline workers cope with digital service encounters	33
Extending working lives: How policies shape retirement and labour market participation of older workers	32
In the eye of the storm…again! Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Southern Europe	31
The causes of welfare state expansion in democratic middle‐income countries: A literature review	27
Withstanding the plague: Institutional resilience of the East Asian welfare state	20
The disembedded digital economy: Social protection for new economy employment in China	20
We have our dignity, yeah? Scrutiny under suspicion: Experiences of welfare conditionality in the Irish social protection system	18
State‐NGOs relationship in the context of China contracting out social services	18
The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development	17
Comparing long‐term care systems: A multi‐dimensional, actor‐centred typology	16
Reducing unemployment? Examining the interplay between active labour market policies	14

Informal social protection: A conceptual synthesis	14
Decent work for sustainable development in post‐crisis Nepal: Social policy challenges and a way forward	14
Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during COVID‐19?	13
The growth of private home care providers in Europe: The case of Ireland	13
Labour market liberalization and the rise of dualism in Europe as the interplay between governments, trade unions and the economy	12
Contextualised resistance: The mediating power of paradigmatic frameworks	12
Fifty years of welfare state generosity	11
Changing the healthcare financing paradigm: Domestic actors and international organizations in the agenda setting for diffusion of social health insurance in post‐communist Central and Eastern Europe	11
The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective	10
Carrots or sticks? A multilevel analysis of active labour market policies and non‐standard employment in Europe	10
Integrating development aid into social policy: Lessons on cooperation and its challenges learned from the example of health care in Kyrgyzstan	10
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security	10
Measuring and framing support for universal basic income	9
Managing precarity: Food bank use by low‐income women workers in a changing welfare regime	9
Frontline social service as a battlefield: Insights from street‐level bureaucrats' interactions with violent clients	9
Why targeting matters: The apprenticeship program for youth in the Czech Republic	9
Linking macro‐level mechanisms to street‐level accountability practices. A cross‐national case study of street‐level accountability of social workers in government funded homeless shelters	9
From austerity‐conditionality towards a new investment‐led growth strategy: Social Europe after the Recovery and Resilience Facility	9
Punitive welfare reform and claimant mental health: The impact of benefit sanctions on anxiety and depression	9
‘Nearly gave up on it to be honest’: Utilisation of individualised budgets by people with psychosocial disability within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme	9
Addressing loneliness and social isolation amongst elderly people through local co‐production in Japan	9
Market stewardship of quasi‐markets by street level bureaucrats: The role of local area coordinators in the Australian personalisation system	9
When policy entrepreneurs fail: Explaining the failure of long‐term care reforms in Poland	8
Work–family balance in the second half of life: Caregivers' decisions regarding retirement and working time reduction in Europe	8
Class politics in the sandbox? An analysis of the socio‐economic determinants of preferences towards public spending and parental fees for childcare	8
A mechanism‐based approach to the comparison of national pension systems in Vietnam and Sri Lanka	8
Affects of policy design: The case of young carers in the Care Act 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014	7
Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s	7
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south	7
Translating social policy ideas: The Beveridge report, transnational diffusion, andpost‐warwelfare state development in Canada, Denmark, and France	7
Is Nordic elder care facing a (new) collaborative turn?	7
A qualitative study of the practices and experiences of staff in multidisciplinary child sexual exploitation partnerships in three English coastal towns	7
Research approaches to networked employment services: A systematic review	7
The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below	7
Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a life course perspective: An introduction	7
No activation without reconciliation? The interplay between ALMP and ECEC in relation to women's employment, unemployment and inactivity in 30 OECD countries, 1985–201	7
Varieties of liberalism: A comparative analysis of family policy and poverty outcomes across the 50 United States	7
From “what works” to “making it work”: A practice perspective on evidence‐based standardization in frontline service organizations	7
Implementation of individual placement and support in a first‐episode psychosis unit: A new way of working	6
Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries	6
Public employment services: Building social resilience in youth?	6
Efficiency and sustainability in municipal social policies	6
Between affordable welfare and affordable food: Internationalized food subsidy reforms in Egypt and Tunisia	6
Active stewardship in healthcare: Lessons from China's health policy reforms	6
Moral framings in the Australian parliamentary debate on drug testing of welfare recipients	6
Public income transfers and wealth accumulation at the bottom: Within and between country differences in Canada and the United States	6
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	6
Integrated care and the ‘agentification’ of the English National Health Service	5
Individual need and societal claims: Challenging the understanding of universalism versus selectivism in social policy	5
Bureaucratic conflict between transnational actor coalitions: The diffusion of British National Vocational Qualifications to China	5

Politicalized empowered learning and complex policy implementation: Targeted poverty alleviation in China's county governments	5
Social investments in the knowledge economy: The politics of inclusive, stratified, and targeted reforms across the globe	5
Out of the wilderness? The coming back of the debate on minimum income in Spain and the Great Recession	5
“I don't know what to do—Could it be cultural?” The operationalization of cultural sensitivity among street‐level workers in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration	5
Citizen‐agency versus state‐agency at the frontline in prisons and probation services: A systematic literature review	5
The power of ideas in policymaking processes: The role of institutionalised knowledge production in state bureaucracies	5
Central coordination, regional competition, and local protectionism: Social decentralisation in China's long‐term care reform	5
The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived: A Trojan horse dilemma?	5
A critical review of cost‐effectiveness research in children's social care: What have we learnt so far?	5
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	5
Who deserves what and why during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Applying the CARIN principles of deservingness to the American welfare state	4
Education as social policy: New tensions in maturing knowledge economies	4
Hybridization in China's elder care service provision	4
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	4
Impression management in the market for residential care for children and youth in Sweden	4
Fugitive coproduction: Conceptualising informal community practices in Scotland's hospitals	4
Buying for good: Altruism, ethical consumerism and social policy	4
Equity versus equality: Discourses and practices within decentralized welfare‐to‐work programs in California	4
Signs of the gender revolution's second phase? Historical and cross‐national development of fathers' leave provisions	4
The long and short of it: The temporal significance of wealth and income	4
The guaranteed minimum income in Portugal: A universal safety net under political and financial pressure	4
Gender, welfare state regimes and social policy beyond advanced capitalism: Pathways to decommodification in middle‐income countries	4
Pension reforms, the generational welfare contract and preferences for pro‐old welfare policies in Europe	4
Sick but at work: Graded sick leave in a comparative perspective	4
Welfare contracting with Chinese socialist characteristics: Experience of the Bohai Bay Economic Rim, Northern China	3
Multi‐level governance and central‐local tensions: The issue of local discretion in long‐term care policy in Italy	3
Accounting for what and to whom? Accountability tensions in collaborations addressing long‐term unemployment	3
Policy success: What is the role of implementation support programmes?	3
Choose your battles: How civil society organisations choose context‐specific goals and activities to fight for immigrant welfare rights in Malaysia and Argentina	3
Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment	3
E Hine: Young Māori mothers talk about welfare benefits	3
From industrial restructuring to the financial crisis: Mainstream nationalism and minimum income in the Basque Country	3
Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency	3
Implementation structures at work. Exploring implementation and de‐implementation attempts regarding Housing First and Individual Placement and Support	3
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	3
Are attitudes in employees of public employment service in line with the principles of individual placement and support? A questionnaire‐based survey	3
Same same but different? Comparing institutional performance in the long‐term care systems of Japan and South Korea	3
Explaining Italian “exceptionalism” and its end: Minimum income from neglect to hyper‐politicization	3
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	3
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	3
Accommodation and new hurdles: The increasing importance of politics for immigrants' access to social programmes in Western democracies	3
How does self‐employment affect pension income? A comparative analysis of European welfare states	3
Why do unemployed people avoid participation in training? An experiment for policy making	3